Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield!
And oft by yon blue gushing stream Shall Sorrow lean her drooping head, And feed deep thought with many a dream, And lingering pause and lightly tread; Fond wretch!
She spent her time in godly prayers, And quiet rest did from her fly; She to her friends full oft declares, She could not live if he did die: Thus she continued till the bell, Began to sound his fatal knell.
Tears from her eyes did flow amain, And she full oft would sighing say, 'My constant love, alas!
The lad that was, the farm now has, Oft smiles, and thinks with joy Of the lucky day he came that way, To be a farmer's boy.
With a pudding on Sunday, and stout humming liquor, And remnants of Latin to welcome the vicar; With a hidden reserve of good Burgundy wine, To drink the king's health in as oft as I dine.
And as to that time, there are still many houses where cards are regularly produced on Christmas Day, a practice which, certainly, to those unaccustomed to it, even the old order of England will not qualify.
And oft frights men from that sin, They had else, transgressèd in; Through a sweet amazement, stroke From an overruling look.
With hand in hand, alone we walked, And oft each other eyed; Of Love and Passions past we talked, Which our poor hearts had tried: Our souls infused into each other were.
Those Ears, thou with music didst oft entertain, And charm with so many a delicate strain; May miss of those pleasures wherewith they are fed, And never hear Song more, when youth is once fled!
And oft relate the loves of Shepherds young; Come, sit you down!
And the lilies oft obtain Greatest sway, unless a blush Help the roses at a push.
No trivial loss their courage will alarm, No threatening martial show their minds disarm, And bribes, those glittering, oft successful darts, Will find no entrance to their guarded hearts.
Full oft from that host hissing flew The whistling spear on the fierce folk.
Games oft have ugly issue: they beget Unhealthy competition, fume and fret: And fume and fret engender in their turn Battles that bleed, and enmities that burn.
Fishes and fowls, their nature and their age, Have oft employed the attention of the sage; But how to solve the problem ne'er was known By mortal palate previous to my own.
Other dainties fade-- The newest oft the fleetest; But of all the pies now made, The Apple's still the sweetest.
Though certain omens oftforewarn a state, And dying lions show the monarch's fate, Why should such fears bid Celia's sorrow rise?
It makes my bosom bleed When I your story read, Though oft 'tis told one.
Here they would oft forget their Rulers' faults, And waste in ancient lore the midnight taper, Inquire if Orpheus first produced the Waltz, How Gas-lights differ from the Delphic Vapor.
Blushing I own thy pleasing art Hath oft seduced my vagrant heart, And led my steps to joy-- The charms of beauty have been mine And let me call the merit thine, Who broughtst the lovely toy.
Now, just beyond the brook there was an orchard and a home where one, Massalian, lived, where Jesus oft had been.
And Jesus halted not, but with a mighty power he rescued many a helpless one, oft bringing back to life the seeming dead.
Lo, I would oft have gathered you as children to the fold of God; but you would not.
I knew you were an austere man, oftreaping where you did not sow and I was sore afraid, and so I took the pound you gave to me and hid it in a secret place; and here it is.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oft" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: commonly; frequently; habitually; much; often; ordinarily; repeatedly; routinely; usually
